{"id":601,"date":"2015-10-06T14:06:19","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/squire-of-edinburgh-town-the\/"},"modified":"2016-01-25T15:28:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T15:28:35","slug":"squire-of-edinburgh-town-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/squire-of-edinburgh-town-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Squire of Edinburgh Town, The"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: Squire of Edinburgh Town, The<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-601-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/squire-of-edinburgh-town-the.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/squire-of-edinburgh-town-the.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/squire-of-edinburgh-town-the.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/squire-of-edinburgh-town-the.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<div class=\"dmeite\">\n<p><span id=\"neasc-nocht-ceilth\" class=\"nmeite\">view \/ hide recording details [+\/-]<\/span><\/p>\n<ul id=\"clarMeiteashonrai\" class=\"meiteashonrai\">\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Teideal <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Title)<\/span>:<\/span> Squire of Edinburgh Town, The.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Chatal\u00f3ige Ollscoil Washington <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(University of Washington Catalogue Number)<\/span>:<\/span> 853903.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Chnuasach Bh\u00e9aloideas \u00c9ireann <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(National Folklore of Ireland Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Roud <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Roud Number)<\/span>:<\/span> 93.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Laws <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Laws Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Child <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Child Number)<\/span>:<\/span> 221.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Cnuasach <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Collection)<\/span>:<\/span> Joe Heaney Collection, University of Washington, Seattle.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Teanga na Cro\u00edmh\u00edre <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Core-Item Language)<\/span>:<\/span> English.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Catag\u00f3ir <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Category)<\/span>:<\/span> song.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Ainm an t\u00e9 a thug <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Name of Informant)<\/span>:<\/span> Joe Heaney.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Ainm an t\u00e9 a th\u00f3g <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Name of Collector)<\/span>:<\/span> Lucy Simpson.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">D\u00e1ta an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Date)<\/span>:<\/span> 03\/07\/1979.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Su\u00edomh an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Location)<\/span>:<\/span> Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Oc\u00e1id an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Occasion)<\/span>:<\/span> private.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Daoine eile a bh\u00ed i l\u00e1thair <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Others present)<\/span>:<\/span> unavailable.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">St\u00e1das ch\u00f3ipcheart an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording copyright status)<\/span>:<\/span> unavailable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Well, now, there&#8217;s another song, you see. It&#8217;s the same air as that<sup class=\"tagairt-n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">1<\/sup>, but the shoe&#8217;s on the other foot &#8211; she fancied the squire. Now, I had a bit of it, and I&#8217;m trying to dig it out, but it&#8217;s the same air.<\/p>\n<p>There was a squire in Edinburgh town, and a squire of high degree<br \/>\nHe courted a country girl, and a comely girl was she<br \/>\nWhen her father came to hear of it, then an angry man was he<br \/>\nHe requested of his daughter dear to shun his company.<\/p>\n<p>There lived a farmer in the town, he had one only son<br \/>\nHe courted this comely girl &#8217;til he thought he had her won<br \/>\nHe got consent from father and mother, likewise from old and young<br \/>\nThe wedding day was set upon, their feasting to begin.<\/p>\n<p>She wrote her love a letter, and sealed it with her hand &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>JH: She wrote him a letter telling him that she was getting married. And he wrote her back a letter asking her to be dressed in green, the night of the wedding. And the night of the wedding, he came to Edinburgh with his company dressed in green &#8211; he had forty men with him, and they were all dressed in green. And he went into the wedding house, you know-<\/p>\n<p>LS: This is the farmer&#8217;s son?<\/p>\n<p>JH: No, this is the squire.<\/p>\n<p>LS: The squire?<\/p>\n<p>JH: The farmer&#8217;s son, you see, was getting married, and she wrote the squire a letter-<\/p>\n<p>LS: Wait a minute-<\/p>\n<p>JH: -telling him-<\/p>\n<p>LS: I thought you said she loved the squire.<\/p>\n<p>JH: That&#8217;s what I said. But&hellip; the parents made a match for her to marry the farmer&#8217;s son. They didn&#8217;t like the squire. But she wrote him a letter telling him she was getting married. And he wrote her back, &#8216;The night of your wedding, be sure to be dressed in green. The night before you marry.&#8217; They were having a &#8216;do&#8217; in the house, a c\u00e9il\u00ed or something, because, he said &#8216;a suit of the same that you put on for your wedding I&#8217;ll prepare.<\/p>\n<p>A suit of the same that I put on for your wedding I&#8217;ll prepare<br \/>\nOh my dearest dear, it&#8217;s with you I&#8217;ll wed, in spite of all that&#8217;s there.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to get the song back. But anyway, they came through the town. And the husband asks somebody, &#8216;Did you see the crowd who came through the town today, all dressed in green?&#8217; And then the squire walks into the wedding-house, you know, where they were holding the pre-wedding dance, and the intended groom said to him,<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If it&#8217;s for a fight that you came here, I am the man for you.&#8217;<br \/>\nBut he said,<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not for a fight that I came here, but good company for to show<br \/>\nSo give me one kiss from your bonny, bonny bride and away from thee I&#8217;ll go.<\/p>\n<p>And he took her on the floor to dance, and he swept her out. She was dressed in green, too. He put her behind him on the horse, and off they went. &#8216;And off they went to Edinburgh town, with the company-&#8216; They were all dressed in green. It&#8217;s a good song&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"n\u00f3ta\u00ed-bun-leathanaigh\">\n<h2 id=\"t:notai\">Notes<\/h2>\n<p class=\"n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">1. As &#8216;The Banks of Sweet Dundee.&#8217; Joe sang this song for Lucy immediately after he had given her &#8216;The Banks of Sweet Dundee,&#8217; because the air had reminded him of it. Unfortunately, Joe never got around to recording the remaining verses of this song for Lucy.<\/p>\n<p>This is a pity, because his synopsis promises at least as complete a version as the one Clare singer Nora Cleary called &#8216;The Green Wedding&#8217;; see Topic&#8217;s compilation Voice of the People (TSCD 656):<\/p>\n<p>There was a squire in Edinburgh town, and a squire of high degree<br \/>\nHe fell courting a comely girl, and a comely girl was she<br \/>\nShe got consent from father and mother, from old and young likewise<br \/>\nAnd it&#8217;s then she said, &#8216;I am undone,&#8217; as the tears fell from her eyes.<\/p>\n<p>She wrote her love a letter, and sealed it with her right hand<br \/>\nAnd told him she was to be wedded to a very rich farmer&#8217;s son<br \/>\nThe very first line he looked over it, he smiled and thus did say<br \/>\n&#8216;I might deprive him of his bride all on his wedding day.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He wrote her back an answer, and that without delay<br \/>\nHe wrote her back an answer, to be sure to be dressed in green<br \/>\n&#8216;A suit of the same I will put on, your wedding I will see<br \/>\nA suit of the same I will put on, your wedding I&#8217;ll prepare<br \/>\nOh dearest dear, it&#8217;s with you I&#8217;ll wed in spite of all that&#8217;s there.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He looked east, and he looked west, and all around the land<br \/>\nHe selected a score of fine young men all of a Scottish clan<br \/>\nThey rode on in twos and threes, and a single man rode he<br \/>\nAnd away they went to the wedding&#8217;s house with his company dressed in green.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Oh, welcome, and oh, welcome! Where have you spent the day?&#8217;<br \/>\nHe laughed at them, he scoffed at them, he smiled and thus did say,<br \/>\n&#8216;They might have been some fairy troops who rode along this way.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>She filled him a glass of new port wine; he said to the company round,<br \/>\n&#8216;Where&#8217; replied, &#8216;is the man&#8217; he said, &#8216;the man they call him groom?&#8217;<br \/>\n&#8216;Where&#8217; replied, &#8216;is the man&#8217; he said, &#8216;who will enjoy the bride?<br \/>\nFor another might like her as well as him, and would take her from his side.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Then out spoke the bachelor, with a voice so loud and clear<br \/>\nSaying, &#8216;If it is for fight that you come here, I am the man for thee!&#8217;<br \/>\n&#8216;It&#8217;s not for fight that I come here, but friendship for to show<br \/>\nGive me one kiss from your bonny, bonny bride and away from you I&#8217;ll go.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He caught her by the middle so smart, and by the grass-green sleeve<br \/>\nHe marched her out of the wedding-house, but his company asked no leave<br \/>\nThe drums did beat and harmonium sound, most glorious to be seen<br \/>\nAnd away he went to Edinburgh town with his company dressed in green.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/template-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amhrain","category-amhrain-i-mbearla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1651,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/1651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}